SpaceX mulls $1.5tn IPO timed to ‘align with Musk’s birthday and the planets’
World’s richest person targeting symbolic date in June for flotation of rocket company
The womanosphere urges dubious followers to back ICE: ‘Don’t let compassion cloud you’
Conservative figures such as Riley Gaines and Allie Beth Stuckey are urging their followers to ward off empathy for victims of ICE’s crackdown
China lags behind US at AI frontier but could quickly catch up, say experts
Beijing’s AI policy is focused on real-life applications but Chinese companies are beginning to articulate their own grand visions
YouTube criticised after pulling out of UK TV audience measurement
Owner Google moves to block Barb data access months after allowing 200 channels to be monitored
‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet
Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
Why Max Richter’s Hamnet needle-drop left me cold
In a new weekly column about the world of classical music, Tom Service bemoans Hollywood turning pieces into slop through overuse. Plus: Philip Glass withdraws his symphony from the Kennedy Center
UK media groups should be allowed to opt out of Google AI Overviews, CMA says
News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summaries
Amazon tells workers it will cut 16,000 jobs worldwide in second big wave of layoffs
Workers informed after message erroneously said affected employees in US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told
Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft
The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
Nouvelle Vague review – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard
Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness
Rabbit Trap review – feral child lends eerie magic to Dev Patel fairy folk rock horror
The 70s musicians who choose to lay down some tracks in remote Welsh countryside may not really surprise, but one young local is startlingly memorable
Hitchcock’s The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What’s next – Psycho on Snapchat?
A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history?
Strongroom review – tough locked-vault thriller is outstanding British 60s crime picture
A gang of bank robbers return to the scene of their crime to free the two employees they imprisoned in a vault in this suspenseful British thriller from 1962
TV tonight: Kirstie and Phil take on the battle of the bungalow
The property duo help homeowners decide what to do with their dated dwelling. Plus: more chaos in Black Ops. Here’s what to watch this evening
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York review – John Turturro steals this simple, charming tale
The actor plays a pickpocket who steals from the wrong person in a leisurely, straightforward crime thriller with a sting in its tail